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About the Role

Circle is building the foundational infrastructure for an open global financial system and is seeking a Senior Director to lead inorganic strategy, focusing on acquisitions, strategic investments, and joint ventures in payments, stablecoins, and institutional financial infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Own working with product and business colleagues to understand landscape and positioning for deal evaluation.
• Originate, evaluate, structure, and close acquisitions, strategic investments, and JVs.
• Maintain a high-signal pipeline of acquisition targets, investment opportunities, and strategic partnership candidates.
• Stay plugged into Bay Area fintech, payments, and AI to translate conversations into actionable strategic intelligence and deal flow.
• Run proactive build-vs-buy-vs-partner analyses grounded in Circle's strategic pillars.
• Lead the full deal lifecycle: initial evaluation, diligence, structuring, negotiation, close, and integration.
• Coordinate and align cross-functional stakeholders (Legal, Finance, Product, Compliance, Engineering).
• Write recommendation-forward analysis, alignment, investment memos, and board materials.
• Structure transactions accounting for Circle's regulatory positioning, USDC liquidity dynamics, and multi-jurisdictional requirements.
• Develop a synthesized view of the competitive landscape and translate market signals into organizational alignment.
• Mentor and raise the bar for the broader CDV team on deal quality, process discipline, and strategic framing.

Requirements

• 13+ years in corporate development, investment banking, growth equity, or strategic finance.
• Led transactions end-to-end.
• Deep, active network in fintech, payments, and/or crypto with genuine relationships in the Bay Area.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong quantitative instincts and ability to build and stress-test financial models.
• Familiarity with generative AI models (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.) and prompt development.
• Experience in crypto, stablecoins, digital assets, or regulated payments infrastructure is preferred.
• Track record closing deals in fast-moving, ambiguous environments is preferred.
• Familiarity with the AI ecosystem is preferred.
• Experience working in or advising companies through regulatory complexity is preferred.
• Prior corporate development experience at a fintech, crypto-native firm, or large-cap tech company is preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree required with an Economics, Finance, Business, Technology or related discipline preferred.
• Experience/familiarity with Slack, Apple MacOS and GSuite.

Skills

• Fintech
• Payments
• AI
• Deal Origination
• Deal Execution
• Financial Modeling
• Generative AI
• Prompt Development
• Regulatory Complexity

Location

• Bay Area

Work Type

• Remote

Experience Level

• Senior Director
• 13+ years

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree

Salary/Compensations

• $245,000 - $307,500

About the Company

• Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure.
• Circle's platform includes the world’s largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC, Circle Payments Network for global money movement, and Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet.
• Enterprises, financial institutions, and developers use Circle to power trusted, internet-scale financial innovation.
• Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do.
• Circle has built a flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.
• Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at its core.
• Circle believes in a future where digital dollars work securely around the world to create a more prosperous global economy for everyone.
• Circle created USDC, a digital currency backed by the US dollar and always redeemable 1:1.
• Circle works closely with regulators to ensure its digital dollar guides and surpasses the standards for stablecoins.
• Circle's values of Multistakeholder, Mindful, Driven by excellence, and High integrity drive success.
• Valuing employees as stakeholders means creating an environment where people can thrive and grow, be challenged and learn constantly – an environment that thrives on diversity by drawing competitive strength from within.

Equal Opportunity

• We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or any other protected status required by the laws in the locations where we hire.
• Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law.
• Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to accommodations@circle.com for support.
• We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs.